Dell PowerEdge T550
Flexible two-socket tower server for enterprise workloads outside of the traditional data center

Overview:

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 balances expandability and performance and offers advanced technologies such as accelerators to address enterprise-class workloads.

Innovate at scale with an expandable tower server for enterprise workloads

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T550, powered by the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, is an enterpriseclass tower server that offers advanced technologies and support for accelerators. The PowerEdge T550 provides office-friendly acoustics, ease of management and expandability for growth and performance. Powerful and versatile, the PowerEdge T550 addresses business critical workloads, cloud infrastructure, and database management as well as enterprise level requirements for data analysis, virtualization, and AI/ML/inferencing.

Increase efficiency and accelerate operations with autonomous collaboration

The Dell EMC OpenManage systems management portfolio tames the complexity of managing and securing IT infrastructure. Using Dell Technologies’ intuitive end-to-end tools, IT can deliver a secure, integrated experience by reducing process and information silos in order to focus on growing the business. The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio is the key to your innovation engine, unlocking the tools and automation that help you scale, manage, and protect your technology environment.

• Built-in telemetry streaming, thermal management, and RESTful API with Redfish offer streamlined visibility and control for better server management
• Intelligent automation lets you enable cooperation between human actions and system capabilities for added productivity
• Integrated change management capabilities for update planning and seamless, zero-touch configuration and implementation
• Full-stack management integration with Microsoft, VMware, ServiceNow, Ansible and many other tools

Protect your data assets and infrastructure with proactive resilience

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 server is designed with a cyber-resilient architecture, integrating security deeply into every phase in the lifecycle, from design to retirement.

• Operate your workloads on a secure platform anchored by cryptographically trusted booting and silicon root of trust
• Maintain server firmware safety with digitally signed firmware packages
• Prevent unauthorized configuration or firmware change with system lockdown
• Securely and quickly wipe all data from storage media, including
• hard drives, SSDs and system memory with System Erase

Features:

Your Innovation Engine

The PowerEdge T550, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, offers advanced technologies such as accelerators to address data-intensive workloads outside the traditional data center.

Expandable tower server for enterprise workloads outside the data center

The PowerEdge T550, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, is designed to address data-intensive workloads.

• New chassis design offers higher performance technologies in a quieter, more management-friendly enclosure
• Ideal for traditional corporate IT, virtualization, databases and analytics, and AI/ML and inferencing
• Enterprise-class tower chassis that provides ease of management and expandability for growth and performance

Systems Management and Security Solutions

Technical Specifications:

Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 Specifications
Processors	Up to two 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 36 cores per processor
Memory	16 DDR4 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM 2 TB max, speeds up to 3200 MT/s Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Storage Controllers	Internal controllers: HBA345, PERC H345, PERC H355, PERC H745, PERC H755, S150, H755N, HBA355i Internal Boot: Internal Dual SD Module, Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS-S2): HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs, USB External PERC (RAID): PERC H840 External HBAs (non-RAID): HBA355e
Drive Bays	Front bays: Up to 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD) max 120 TB Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD) max 240 TB Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD) max 360 TB Up to 8 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD/SAS) max 120 TB Up to 8 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD) + 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe (SSD) max 240 TB
Power Supplies	600 W DC/240 V 600 W Platinum AC/100–240 V 800 W DC/240 V 800 W Platinum AC/100–240 V 1100 W DC/-48–(-60) V 1100 W DC/240 V 1100 W Titanium AC/100–240 V 1400 W DC/240 V 1400 W Platinum AC/100–240 V 400 W DC/240 V 2400 W Platinum AC/100–240 V
Cooling Options	Air cooling
Fans	Standard (STD) fans/High performance (HPR) silver fans Up to eight hot swap fans
Dimension	Height – 459.0 mm (18.07 inches) Width – 200.0 mm (7.87 inches) Depth – 663.5 mm (26.12 inches) – without bezel and 680.5 mm (26.79 inches) – with bezel
Form Factor	5U tower server
Embedded Management	iDRAC9 iDRAC Direct iDRAC Service Module iDRAC RESTful with Redfish Quick Sync 2 wireless module
Bezel	Optional LCD bezel or security bezel
OpenManage Software	OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Power Manager plugin OpenManage SupportAssist plugin OpenManage Update Manager plugin
Mobility	OpenManage Mobile
Integrations and Connections	Integrations: BMC Truesight Microsoft System Center Red Hat Ansible Modules VMware vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager Connections: IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition Micro Focus Operations Manager OpenManage Connections Nagios Core Nagios XI
Security	Cryptographically signed firmware Secure Boot Secure Erase Silicon Root of Trust System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter) TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ
Embedded NIC	2 x 1 GbE LOM
Network Options	1 x OCP 3.0
GPU Options	Up to two double wide 300 W NVIDIA A40, or five single wide 70 W NVIDIA T4 accelerators
I/O & Ports	Front Ports: 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port (optional) 1 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0 Internal Ports: 1 x USB 3.0 (optional) Rear Ports: 1 x USB 2.0 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port 1 x Serial (optional) 1 x USB 3.0 2 x Ethernet 1 x VGA
PCIe	Up to 6 x PCIe Gen4 slots
Supported Operating Systems	Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS Citrix Hypervisor Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMware ESXi
OEM-Ready Version Available	From bezel to BIOS to packaging, your servers can look and feel as if they were designed and built by you.

Support & Services:

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Documentation:

Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 Datasheet (.PDF)